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Volume 1 - Issue 03
2007
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Jenny Lui Welcome to GOMAD Magazine issue three. As you can
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Moses Chikazaza the journey of Uni Chick, become well versed on
Mr Garro the beginnings of Ebay, get tips on pimping your
Tino “Trigga” Gaka MySpace profile, get clued up on Chlamydia, get tips
for backpacking in Europe and explore the ins and outs
CONTRIBUTORS of erections. We’ve covered the important and the
Mr Andersen obscure and we also aim to cover topics relevant to the
Allira Caddies student community. If you are a student and wish to
Nomadrick Chappo contribute feel free to contact us at GOMAD and drive
Greg Hall
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Cool gadgets and in things The ins and outs of erections
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rientation week as a ‘mature school I am from or whether I am from out workshops turned anti-teenage, no-holds-
age’ student was meant to be of town (note rolling of the eyes) and I have barred bitching-sessions) calling all ‘us’
fun and liberating – last time I found out that despite my advanced social mature-agers to a wide-spread anti-17 yr old
checked, I was only 26 and that enlightenment I have become alarmingly movement, bordering on total anarchy.
still gives me a license to unlimited parties, prejudiced against this new breed of The intrigue, the treachery…Whatever
drinking sessions, ability to shop at funky generation whatever-the-hell-you-call-them. happened to the good-old fashioned kegs-
little 20-something clothing shops and …act I can’t decide whether it is the stick on-the-lawn and drunken orgies I have
like a young person. What people failed to –thinness of them, squeezed in to too-small heard so much about? What of the student
mention to me was that in uni terms, 26 is 80s style clothing or the fact that they hang associations and anti-war rallies against
mature age and mature age means old. out in packs and bemoan the fact that they the injustices of uni fees and the war in
Thrown smack bang in to the middle of won’t be allowed to get legally drunk for Iraq? Has it all really been overtaken with
O-week is like some naked-in-the-middle-of another 3 and a half months, 6 days and 5 the battle of the generations, tight clothes,
–class dream gone crazy, except this time hours, at which time the toga party will be post menopausal women and self-obsessed
I wasn’t naked, but thrown back in to the over and their lives ruined (oh, the agony!). anorexic teenagers?
middle of grade 12 where everyone around But I am not sure what is worse – being Do we really work through 12 years of
me is 17 , only I am older and fatter. thrown in with the ex-high schoolers or being school, exams, finals, blood sweat and tears
I am not sure if I am the only one that has classified as being ‘mature aged’ and lumped (and all the rest) simply to endure another
noticed this. At times I have felt like a covert amongst the 60 + baby boomers who have 4 or 5 years of institutional torture, fighting
operations detective or as if I am the main passed the menopause threshold and for the best seat in the lecture theatre and
character in a movie where the only human gained a second lease on life - re-inventing struggling through the hoards at the canteen
tries to move slowly, undetected through themselves as uni-grandma’s. They have a to find yourself a clean seat far enough away
the mass of zombie’s, hoping to blend in but clique – the groaning about lazy husbands from the endless junk-food machines to
inevitably caught out as the infidel. and grown up kids while reliving the 60’s avoid the temptation of emotional eating?.
They seem to accept me as one of their clique. Now I really am starting to sound like a
own (up until the point that I mention my age These ‘mature agers’ have held secret mature age student.
and am cast out from the fold like a leper). meetings ( well not so secret, more like
I have been persistently asked what high faculty-organised getting-to-know-you
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Th e Firs
Ebay :
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In 1997, Omidyar changed
AuctionWeb’s - and his company’s -
name to ‘eBay’, which is what people
had been calling the site for a long
time. He began to spend a lot of money
on advertising, and had the eBay logo
designed. It was in this year that the
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- M ov i n g Fo r wa rd i n t h e World of Telecommunications.
Smashin Fashion
Daft Punk – harder, better, faster, stronger robot rock. December 20 2007,
something to tell your grandkids about, I’m gonna be there, are you?
Sassy barflies – they have a natural talent for finding subliminal
messages in icecubes.
Chocolate Pizza – dinner and dessert all in one meal.
Hello heart attack.
Ice cream – because it’s lickalicious and it’s gone and saved the day.
Gold – it’s gaudy, glam and goddam everywhere! GOLD!
Always believe in your soouull!
Making up your own lyrics – because it’s fun and makes just as much
sense anyways. Daft punk “one more time, we’ve got a salad breaker”
Self promotion – I’m the best, I’m fricken awesome and you know it.
TV – Because without it, we’d have to like, talk and make conversation…
Facebook - poke, poke back, poke, poke back, F*CK OFF before I poke
your friggen eyes out then you’ll have no face or eyes to read a book!
Delta Goodrem – has a great deal of pride but little to be proud of…
hussy, whiney, woe is me, home wrecker. Go away already.
Rove Mcmanus – a prime candidate for natural de-selection.
One show is enough.
Belts – high-waist, under your arse, does anyone actually use them to
hold anything up? (why not donate one to the homeless guy in the city
who’s always holding his pants up)
F luro – no wonder you need massive sunnies to match. You burn your
retinas just putting an outfit together.
B ubble Tea – stabbing that straw through is sweet therapy
but sucking those ‘pearls’ is absolutely disgusting.
P redictive text - about as useful as a mint flavoured suppository.
Ticket scalpers – scum of the earth.
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he nostalgia of the 80’s on the side of a building to be this strange combination of video
has been simmering in the used as a billboard. and ar t to the public.
fashion wor ld for several Well, if D onald Trump has given S o what should we expec t in
years. I t is per haps not a his approval the nex t five years? Well, for the
sur pr ise that the pop culture of Speak ing of games, ar t wor ld change is always good,
the 80’s is also rear ing its head another big hit in the 80’s was although of ten cr iticized in its
in the ar t wor ld. video games - Pac M an, M ar io for mative years. S o we may have
We have seen graffiti, which Brothers and others were played to wait and see if ‘ video - game
was once considered a vulgar by most teens at one time or ar t ’ will make a solid stand in the
expression of inner- cit y youth, another. These teens are now ar t communit y. What we do k now
become a tool for mar keters and adults look ing back with a hint is that the or iginal game players
embraced as a creative outlet for of nostalgia at their youth, are now coming into their 40’s
ur ban ar tists. despite the fac t that it was only and anyone under that age will
This was made apparent on 15-20 years ago. But technology have grown up with video games
an episode of ‘ The Apprentice’, changes quick ly and so these as a par t of their childhood, just
D onald Trump’s realit y program icons of the 80’s are now being as ‘I Love Luc y ’ was a par t of
aimed to selec t a candidate from featured in ar t galler ies like another generations’. B ecause of
a group of smar t, resourceful G aller y N ineteen Eight y Eight in that, the images will likely have
and business minded men and Holly wood. an emotional pull and impac t
women. One of the tasks given The galler y features pieces on new and existing collec tors
to them on the ser ies included that take a contemporar y look today.
creating an adver tisement for a at video games and is possibly
new game. They were to create helping to create a new genre in Greg Hall
a graffiti inspired adver tisement the field.
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Student Travel – B
a ckpacking In Euro
pe The Evidence
Nomadrick Chappo
For the fortunate few, life isn’t complete > This is the hard part for most travelers
without a backpacking trip through to wrap their minds around. You will
Europe. This right of passage is believed to What To Take forget those special moments of your
further the maturation process of college > There are a few mantras that every trip when you met the hunk Sven or
students, according to sociologists. Of person should chant before packing for babe Svenetta from Sweden and had
course, others have opined that copious Europe. These chants were developed a romantic evening/danced the night
amounts of alcohol, sun and Amsterdam originally by the little known, Oh-My- away/got arrested in Ios/Ibiza/the
have something to do with it. Regardless Back Monks of Southeast Asia. The “OMB” airport. Maybe not immediately, but you
of your purpose, you still have to figure out Monks were known for traveling half way will eventually forget.
what to take. your purpose, you still have to to far off cities, turning around, returning You will also forget or lose the
figure out what to take. home and then traveling the full way to contact information of people you meet,
said cities. Religious experts opined as to despite meticulously writing it down on
B a c k p a c k – G etting I n Touch the deep metaphysical meaning of such the back of a coaster/napkin/your hand
in a bar/poetry reading/jail at three in
Wi t h Yo u r I nner M ule trips. They were later embarrassed when
the monks revealed the back and forth the morning. Surprisingly, said coaster/
> Obviously, the first critical item is your
nature of the trips was due to forgetting napkin/hand often survives the night/
backpack. While one doesn’t need to
something, often whether they had day/weekend and get deposited in your
buy the $10,000 Himalaya Turbo Pack,
turned off the iron. Nonetheless, such already trashed backpack. Of course,
you should also avoid the $12 blue light
chants have become the guiding their presence is often forgotten when
special. So, how do you pick a happy
light of experienced backpackers. you later put an Oktoberfest
middle ground?
The best method for picking a Let us slowly and clearly chant mug/wet towel/toothbrush in.
together, The extra padding at the bottom
backpack involves three phone books. “I will pack only that which will of your pack is specifically
Select/swipe/borrow three yellow not result in me being hunched
over like a Sherpa.” designed to deal with the
page books from neighbors/friends/
“Remember, I can pick it [(lower decomposing result. Still, the
enemies and hit your local sporting voice) toothpaste, book, soap] up information is gone and so is
goods store. With the books, head to over there.”
“I will not stuff thy pack to the point your future with Sven/Svenetta.
the backpackapalozza section of the
store and pick out a few sturdy/cool/
of bursting, for thy damn zippers To properly record the
always break/get snagged/refuse magical moments of your trip,
outrageous rigs. Stuff the phone books to work.” you must take a diary or journal.
in, adjust the straps and go for a walk. “I will learn humility through
Now break out into a run to simulate wearing incredibly wrinkled Don’t worry, you can burn it later
clothes and shall not bring an before you get married/your
future dashes for trains/ ferries/ toilets iron.” parents get nosey/you have
and make the sales people nervous. “I shall bring only one guide book,
not one for each country that I kids. You want a journal in a water/beer/
These steps should quickly reveal the
MIGHT see.” sweat resistant case. Of course, I prefer
perfect pack. “I accept that I will come home a Travel Journal, but just make sure you
Now, you may have read other wearing something I didn’t take
and will have lost/traded/burned take something. When you have some
publications suggesting highly technical
ways to select a backpack. Trust me;
much of what I did take.” extra time in the bus/train/jail cell, you
For female travelers and, okay, the can record how you got there and the
until you have run for the last ferry from occasional male, people you met.
Italy to Greece, you have no idea how to “I will not bring high heels or a
pick a pack. The three phone book test gaggle of make-up.” Trust me, when you, Sven/Svenetta
Admittedly, chanting these mantras and your nine children are sitting on
solves this nicely.
will not bringing you immediate the porch 10 years later, you will greatly
enlightenment. Fret, not. You can always enjoy reading your journal. Of course,
throw items away or send them home that assumes you didn’t burn it.
in a box to your parents/friends/parole
officer. For the resourceful backpacker,
it is not unheard of to send particularly
smelly/discolored/toxic clothing to an
ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend/little brother.
Follow these practical guidelines and you
will soon happily be speaking in a loud
voice to make foreigners understand
you.
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